Having escaped the self-styled Islamic State thousands of Sunnis are disappearing at the hands of Shia militias.​​Dispatches (Channel 4, UK) has uncovered evidence of mass kidnap, torture and killing by those liberating Iraq from ISIS:

On May 23, Iraqi security forces began operations to retake Fallujah, where UN officials estimate about 50,000 civilians, including 20,000 children, remain.

Human Rights Watch has received credible allegations of summary executions, beatings of unarmed men, enforced disappearances, and mutilation of corpses by government forces over the two weeks of fighting, mostly on the outskirts of the city, since May 23:

Iraq’s forces have heralded military operations in Fallujah a success. The aftermath however, is fuelling one of Iraq’s largest humanitarian disasters.

As numbers of those displaced rapidly mushroom, solutions are yet to be voiced by Iraq’s cash-strapped government, whose economy is crumbling under the weight of its inflated budget deficit.

While the government claims Fallujah’ has been liberated, the spectre of violence has reached more victims. FRB examines that latest allegations of torture and abuse of people that fled their homes in Fallujah.​

As Iraqi forces and state-sponsored militias shuffle from one town to the next, liberated towns are being emptied of their inhabitants. ​Women and children have been helped to safety by state forces, but the men are nowhere to be seen.

FRB visits the latest military developments in Anbar province, and the case of the missing men.